The xTool X1 might initially look like another large, enclosed laser engraver, but it wasn’t long into my months-long test of the X1, to realise it’s something far more ambitious.
The R1 isn’t Bambu Lab’s first venture into laser engraving; of course, we first saw the small-capacity engraver in the H2D, which enabled, with the cutter and 3D printer, a full range of manufacturing tools in one not-so-small machine. The R1 is something altogether more serious and much closer to machines such as the xTool…